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62 Business View - December 2014
Helping Infrastructure
Partners Achieve Goals
Phoenix Tower International bullish on Latin America opportunity
Phoenix Tower International’s mission since its cre-
ation in 2013 has been to own/operate high-quality
wireless infrastructure sites in stable markets experi-
encing strong wireless usage growth, and its current
expansion initiatives are focused on Central and South
America and the United States.
The company’s founder and chief executive officer,
Dagan Kasavana, had been senior vice president of
mergers and acquisitions at Global Tower Partners,
up until that business was sold to the American Tower
Corporation late in 2013. But rather than taking the
chance to disconnect when the transaction was final-
ized, he was so convinced of the market’s long-term
vitality that he kept right on working.
“I really felt like the wireless growth was going to con-
tinue for five or 10 years more, unabated, both in the
United States and especially in Latin America,” he
said. “So, when we sold the business to American Tow-
er, I didn’t want to go to the beach and enjoy a vaca-
tion. I really wanted to get right back into it because I
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